T-rays: New imaging technology spotlighted by American Chemical Society
...thout harmful radiation, was the focus of a recent symposium at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. The session was organized and chaired by experts Charles A. Schmuttenmaer , professor of chemistry at Yale, and Xi-Cheng Zhang, professor and director of the Center for Terahertz Research a...You can't rely on firearms forensics
...the temperatures reached during braking. At an FBI symposium last June, GSR experts discussed ways to improve and standardise the tests. The bureau would not discuss the meeting, but special agent Ann Todd says the FBI's laboratory is preparing a paper for publication that "will make recommendations to the sci...Scientists evaluate impact of preemptive malaria treatment for infants
...rchers will discuss these topics at a special IPTi symposium to be held at this week's Fourth Multilateral Init...rsday, 9:00 a.m., Mongosi Hall, Symposium 14) The symposium comes on the heels of last month's publication of results from the Ghana trial, which showed for the...Leading researchers from Israel and Southern California to present stem cell symposium
...from Israel and Southern California will present a symposium on advances in stem cell biology and therapeutics ...l-Based Cure for Parkinson's Disease Although the symposium is open to the public, the highly scientific nature of the presentations makes it more suitable for ...Historian at NJIT will discuss disseminating scientific knowledge in 19th century
...ory of print and more, Nov. 19, 2005, at a daylong symposium in Madison. "I'll focus on how scientific ideas were shared, and explore how people used face-to-face communication, written letters, boxed plants, and prints to disseminate, promote and challenge ideas about the natural world," Gumienny said. Edito...The ethics of selecting for existence
Highlights from the current issue of Ethics, a symposium on disability by some of the leading theorists working on the subject. Highly applicable to current debates surrounding prenatal screening, social welfare, and "invisible disabilities" such as depression, the articles also serve as ruminations on the...Organic, sustainability research discussed at scientific meeting
...CSSA will be celebrated on Tuesday, Nov. 8, with a symposium that highlights the accomplishments of CSSA and the challenges and opportunities of the next half-century. A full slate of technical sessions covering 2,500 research papers presented by 3,000 attendees is scheduled through noon on Thursday, Nov. 10....EMBO selects Europe's best young independent scientists
...p of lectures at international meetings, an annual symposium and a laboratory management course are some of the benefits that help augment the standing of the young investigators and support new collaborations. The programme is highly competitive with a 13% success rate in the current round of selection. Manag...Media alert A look forward and a look back: 50 years of crop science
...tt Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon EF. The day-long symposium that begins at 8am will showcase the pioneering work of crop science over the last 50 years coupled with the challenges and opportunities that face this science in the next half-century. The CSSA Golden Anniversary Symposium includes these presentati...Amazing nanotech in Boston: Weighing DNA, digital heat flow, electromechanical butterfly images
...nvention Center (900 Boylston Street). The entire symposium takes place between October 30-November 4, 2005. The meeting will feature over 1300 papers and posters, with at least 3,000 expected attendees. Reporters interested in attending the luncheon should fill out the registration form at http://www2.avs.o...Institute of Medicine advisory: IOM's 35th annual meeting explores pharmaceuticals
...on Monday, Oct. 24. It will host a daylong public symposium to explore issues related to pharmaceuticals in the 21st century. Topics include drug safety in the United States and the developing world, how consumer drugs are priced and promoted, and the government's role in drug development. The Institute will...National Soybean Rust Symposium to be held in Nashville
...e Renaissance Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. "This symposium will offer the latest and best research and inform...demiology, additional hosts, inoculum sources The symposium will also offer posters on the latest research and efforts on soybean rust including: Detection, p...New stem cell transplantation technique may match donor for every patient
...MDS International Foundation, Inc. (AA&MDSIF), the symposium is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, including the Office of Rare Diseases, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Cancer Institute. New Stem Cell Transplantation Technique May Match Donor For Every Patient A ...Scientific institute founded by Jonas Salk to host meeting for polio survivors on Oct. 27
... at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The symposium coincides with this year's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first vaccine against polio, a disease that once paralyzed 13,000 to 20,000 people nationwide each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In 1952, three years bef...Woods Hole Research Center scientist part of international initiatives to save the great apes
...on, the Woods Hole Research Center will co-chair a symposium -- "Remote Sensing Tools for Great Ape Research and Conservation: Current Applications and Future Needs" -- with the Jane Goodall Institute in June 2006 at the International Primatological Society in Uganda. Dr. Laporte is a biologist whose research...Agronomy, crop, and soil science research to be presented in Salt Lake City
...CSSA will be celebrated on Tuesday, Nov. 8, with a symposium that highlights the accomplishments of CSSA and the challenges and opportunities of the next half-century....New studies on bone marrow failure diseases presented at scientific symposium Oct. 18-19
...ng physicians on bone marrow failure diseases. The symposium is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health,... Lung and Blood Institute. More information on the symposium is at AA&MDSIF's web site: http://www.aamds.org What: Bone Marrow Failure Scientific Symposium ...Illinois researchers to play key roles in study of emergence of life
...nts in kindergarten through high school. A special symposium for primary and secondary educators also is planned at the conclusion of the research. The NSF's FIBR grant is the second in two years that sends funds to the Institute for Genomic Biology, headed by Harris Lewin. Last year, the IGB was named the lea...RNA all set to become a superstar
...ceremony, the Foundation will also be organizing a symposium with renowned experts on the subject of RNA interference, to be held on September 22 at the Harnack-Haus belonging to the Max Planck Society in Berlin. For many years, ribonucleic acids (RNA) were considered to be of little interest. Yet in the meant...Johnson & Johnson names selection committee for Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
...e Janssen Pharmaceutica was first established. The symposium will also commemorate the 80th anniversary of Dr. Paul's birth. In November 2004, to honor Dr. Paul's work in neuroscience, Johnson & Johnson announced a grant of $5 million to Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) to fund a special scholars prog...